Why did Kennedy lack a mandate after winning the presidential election?

Some of the successes of Kennedy's New Frontier

Describe some of the successes and failures of Kennedy's New Frontier.

What were the conclusions of the Warren Commission?

Oswald had acted alone in the shooting the President. Neither

mission had on the country?

Kennedy wanted to prove that the U.S was capable of going to the moon. The success of

Great Society

President Lyndon B Johnson's proposals for aid to public education, voting rights, conservative and

Head Start

Preschool program for kids coming from low- income families. Annalyn (page 746)

VISTA

...Volunteers in Service to America, sent volunteers to help people in poor communities(Under Bush And Clinton

Medicare

A program created/founded in 1965 that provides hospital and low-cost medical insurance to most

Medicaid

Provides low-cost health insurance coverage to poor Americans no matter how old that cannot get private

Immigration Act of 1965

An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes. (Page 747) Ben and

Miranda Rule

rule that police must inform persons accused of a crime of their legal rights pg 748 Hayden, Stuart

Apportionment

distribution

Briefly outline LBJ's rise to the presidency.

Became president after Kennedy was pronounced dead pg.744 Daniel & Abby

List the key goals of the Great Society.

Full civil rights for blacks and minorities, economic support for the

How did the Miranda Rule change law enforcement in the United State?

"It allowed suspects to be informed of their

Bay of Pigs Invasion

an embarissing attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro that was organized by the US

Fidel Castro

..., Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the corrupt regime of the dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and soon after established a Communist state. He was prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and…

SNCC

Organization founded in 1960 by college students to organize sit-ins and other nonviolent protests and offer young people a voice in the movement; became more radical in the late 1960s under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael

Freedom Ride

Bus trips taken by both black and white civil rights advocates in the 1960s. Sponsored by the Congress

city in alabama where violence towards african american nonviolent protests occured

March on Washington

Was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in uS history and called for civil and scone ices rights for African Americans

I have a dream speech

A speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the demonstration of freedom in 1963 at the

Civil Rights Act 1964

This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the

Freedom Summer

In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote.

Fannie Lou Hamer

(1917-1977) bacame a SNCC field worker in 1963; helped found the MFDP; left SNCC in 1966 when

Voting Rights Act of 1965

A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatica…

Twenty-fourth Amendment

It outlawed taxing voters, i.e. poll taxes, at presidential or congressional elections, as an effort to remove barriers to Black voters.

Kerner Commission

a group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of urban violence and that

Malcolm X

Militant civil rights leader

Nation of Islam

Syncretic new religious movement founded in Detroit by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930s.

black power

A slogan used to reflect solidarity and racial consciousness, used by Malcolm X. It meant that equality could not be given, but had to be seized by a powerful, organized Black community., idea phrase…

Black Panthers

A black political organization that was against peaceful protest and for violence if needed. The organization marked a shift in policy of the black movement, favoring militant ideals rather than peaceful protest; "advocating self-rule for American blacks"

John F Kennedy

A very famous US president during the Cold War. He was killed by a man with a gun in the 1960's.

Richard M. Nixon

Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate

flexible response

President Kennedy's Cold War foreign policy

Peace Corps

set up by JFK as an effort to help out third world countries

Alliance for Progress

program under Kennedy and Johnson that increased US economic aid to Latin American nations that agreed to economic and social reforms. ($20 billion over 10 years).

Cuban Missile Crisis

the US discovers nuclear missiles are on their way to cuba so they take action and the ships from russia turn around

Nikita Khrushchev

For the first few years after Stalin's death in 1953, a group of leaders shared power. As time went by, however, one man did gain power. Like Stalin, he believed that communism would take …

hot line

direct telephone link created by Kennedy and Kruschev to allow leaders to communicate instantly in

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

July 1963 all powers except France and China agree to stop testing in atmosphere, space and

berlin wall

A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

New Frontier

The campaign program advocated by JFK in the 1960 election. He promised to revitalize the stagnant

Equal Pay Act

Act that requires men and women to be paid equally when they are doing equal work in the same

deficit spending

1. spending more money than it collects in taxes (this results in government debt)

Space Race

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.

War on Poverty

President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's to provide greater social services for the poor and

Economic Opportunity Act

law enacted in 1964 that provided funds for youth programs antipoverty measures,

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

law that changed the national quota system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per

Mapp v. Ohio

Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be

Gideon v. Wainwright

a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In the case, the Supreme Court